Identify internal/external disk on k370 server? is it hot swappable?

[Lucero Perez]

ok, so in this case I was confused because in below post he mentioned that filesystem must be umount... :S

which is strange, if I only disable that devioce in vg I can assume that I will be free to do that without issues

I checked man of vgchange

DESCRIPTION
The vgchange command with the -a option activates or deactivates one
or more volume groups.

-a availability Set volume group availability. availability
can have one of the following values:

y Activate each specified volume
group and all associated physical
and logical volumes for read-write
access.

-a

n Deactivate each specified volume
group and its associated logical
volumes. You must close the
logical volumes prior to executing
this option. For example, if the
logical volume contains a file
system, the file system must be
unmounted.


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Why i have to deactivate if that disk is no longer recognized by OS, I am thinking to replace the disk withot any preparation since the disk is down.
After that follow my original steps:

1.- pull out failed disk

2.- Restore the LVM configuration information for the physical volume

vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg07 /dev/rdsk/c0t14d0

3.- Activate volume group
vgchange -a y /dev/vg07

4.- Synchronize stale logical volume mirrors
vgsync /dev/vg07


As far as I know I dont need to umount fs that are using /dev/vg07/lvol*

[Lucero Perez]

well, nothing has to be deactivated, I just did below steps..

Thanks all!

[Lucero Perez]

issue resolved

[Torsten.]

Well done, did you also read this

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33